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Former Starbucks CEO found to have broken labor law
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that, while serving as Starbucks’ interim chief executive in 2022, Howard Schultz broke federal labor law by telling a barista in a discussion about unionization that “if you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company.” The NLRB ordered Starbucks to post a notice…
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No chance a foreign adversary can change U.S. election results, cybersecurity chief says
Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has said that the security of America’s election systems is assured, observing that “Malicious actors, even if they tried, could not have an impact at scale such that there would be a material effect on the outcome of the election.” Despite warnings of foreign…
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Meta faces fresh copyright lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc. is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit from author Christopher Farnsworth, who alleges that the company’s large language model was trained on pirated books. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims that Meta utilized an 800 GB open-source dataset known as The Pile, which includes…
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OpenAI and Microsoft face copyright showdown
OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub are set to face the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit regarding a copyright lawsuit initiated by open-source programmers. The programmers allege that artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool Copilot infringes upon the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by using open-source code for training without proper attribution. Judge Jon…
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Uber terms mean couple can’t sue after ‘life-changing’ crash
A couple who were left with life-changing injuries after their Uber crashed have been told they cannot sue the company because of the terms they accepted when using the app. Georgia and John McGinty, from New Jersey are bound by a clause saying they could not take the case to a jury in a court…
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Fee frenzy in Iowa hospital bankruptcy
The bankruptcy proceedings of Iowa City’s Mercy hospital have led to a contentious battle over legal fees, with applications exceeding £13m. A significant portion, £5.1m, is earmarked for Chicago’s McDermott Will & Emery, while New York’s ToneyKorf Partners has billed £4.8m. The Liquidating Trust Oversight Committee has raised concerns, stating: “The sale price of the…
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